Opening songs:OP 1-Uragiri no yuuyake,OP 2-Complication
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Genres:Psychological,romance,comedy,slice of life,drama
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Episodes:24
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A show that came out of nowhere! Durarara on first sight might be just your run-of-the-mill show about schol life and city crap, which it actually is. But damn, if you are thinking this would be a typical suckish show like I did before I watched it, you are seriously in for one hell of a ride.
Though the show's first half starts out just okay and makes the main characters seem non existant, the second half takes you for a ride and immediately takes you on the edge of your seat. A great watch for sure.
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The opening songs are some of the most epic in anime histroy. Uragiri no yuuyake is by theatre brook, whom I dont like too much, but uragiri no yuuyake is just too damn nice to hear. The opening animations also make you wonder what kinda show this is lol. The second opening takes the cake, complication by rookiez is punkd is probably one of the best anime openings out there. Im serious, it compares to that of other top tier anime tie-ins like only my railgun and god knows.
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Rating:8.5/10
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Giving durarara any less would be downright criticism! It isnt a really focused show at first, but later on its just epic. There is supernatural stuff involved, but no flying around and shooting magic blasts like in bleach or DBZ, its just some minor stuff. It may seem that some characters arent getting screen time in the 1st half (more particularly the main characters), but it all adds up in the end.
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Starring as durarara's star character, we have ryugamine mikado, a quiet and timid boy who moved into ikebukuro from a small country side town. There he meets his long time friend kida masaomi, and he takes mikado on a tour around ikebukuro. They run into many crazy characters, a bunch of crazy manga freaks, a big and scary sushi shop promoter and a crazy strong guy who flips a vending machine into the sky like its a nickel. Mikado moves into the same school as kida, there they meet anri, a quiet bespectacled girl who seems to be hiding a secret. The 3 quickly become good friends, and hang out oftenly. But as weird happenings occur throughout the city and involve other characters, an unbelieveable chain of events connect the pieces and lead the causes straight to these 3 newly met and familiarised friends. What could this mean?
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Durarara might start out abit bland and may get boring, but watchin further has its own pluses, and when you make it past episode 9 or so, shit gets real, and you will see that the way that the characters are connected are so geniusly formed, that anything below 8.5 is just discrimination! A great show, definetely worth a watch.
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Peace.
